Re: cycling through frames in tiled layouts (and elsewhere?)

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 02:52:53PM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> On 2007-10-28, Evgeny Kurbatov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is unpredictible (and therefore annoying) sometimes.  How can I
> > navigate through horizontally splited tiling, where the left half
> > splitted vertically also?  The result of ioncore.goto_next(_chld,
> > 'direction') depends on pre-previous active frame.

yes, that was essentially what triggered my initial question.
> 
> Linear cycling is unpredictable even more so.

not quite. you cycle through all the frames in a fixed order,
so that - at least for a moderate number of frames in the tiling
it's quite easy to memorize the cycling order.

in contrast, the default navigation via Mod1-Tab, -K-N, -K-P, suffers
indeed from the 'memory effect' w.r.t. to where Mod1-Tab is jumping next.

thankfully tuomo told me (despite his negative rating of cycling)
off-list how to define frame-cycling:

--add this definition to cfg_ioncore.lua:
defbindings("WFrame", {
    kpress(META.."J", "ioncore.goto_next(_, 'next')"),
})
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I've decided to like this approach to augment the usual navigation
facilities, especially in small tilings such as 2 x 2.

joerg

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